Communications Minister Blanca Eekhout said the U.S. seeks to provoke a war between Colombia & Venezuela to disrupt the current process of economic & political unity by Venezuela & other independent govts. 1,000s marched against US-Colombia military deal.

While most governments in the region acted in solidarity with the elected president and the majority of Hondurans, and broke ties with the coup regime, the USA has not broken ties with the regime. US military ties & most economic aid & US trade continue.

To regain control of its "backyard," the U.S. is increasingly intervening in Latin America: U.S. support for the recent military coup in Honduras, destabilisation of Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador & Paraguay, & a massive U.S. military build up in the region.

The accord (signed on October 30 to end the coup conflict) has failed, because coup leader Micheletti refuses to accept the accord's condition that democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya be reinstated. The people of Honduras continue the struggle!

Despite the supposed withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, more than 130,000 US soldiers remain -- similar to the size of the US contingent when the invasion began in 2003. Torture is routine in government detention centres. Get U.S. troops out of Iraq now!!!

Official U.S. documents say a new deal with Colombia will allow the U.S. to fight "anti-US governments" in South America. Chavez responded: "Don't make the mistake, President Obama, of ordering an overt aggression against Venezuela utilizing Colombia."

Decrying Obama as "white power in black face", 100s of Black Americans marched on the White House on Saturday to protest Obama's policies, and to demand he bring US troops home, scrap the USA's Africom, and end U.S. aggression against Cuba & Venezuela.

According to Pastors for Peace, Radio Globo from Honduras is reporting that snipers are shooting into the Brazilian Embassy where President Zelaya & 100s of supporters have taken refuge. And paramilitary death squads from Colombia have arrived in Honduras

The government of Costa Rica & the new leftwing government of El Salvador have both pledged to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba. This leaves the US as the only country in the Americas without normal diplomatic relations with Cuba, plus a blockade.

On March 20, peace & international solidarity activists globally will mark the 6th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by the US-led "coalition of the willing". Imperial forces have used the old imperial tactic of divide & rule, perpetuating the violence.

The silence from the government, and media on the latest evidence of mass killing and social devastation in Iraq underscores the complicity of the entire American ruling elite and all of its official institutions in a war crime of catastrophic proportions